All art is at once surface and symbol

( Why Ruka Tsuchiya is the greatest character in Revolutionary Girl Utena )

Finally, the #1 Reason Ruka Tsuchiya is the best...

( Oh Ruka, you are truly amazing! ;; )

If I haven't been responding much, that's because I've been playing Tomodachi Life like crazy. I'll share my adventures later, but right now, I want to share all these QR Codes that have been piling up in my SD card.

First, an outfit for Animal Crossing:

( Spoilers for Madoka: Rebellion? Idk )

I'm on hiatus from the game for a while, since I burnt myself out. I still have a ton of horror town visits saved on my SD card though, which I'll load later. I stopped playing the day before the hibiscuses bloomed, so I think that's the day I TT back to so I don't lose any of my villagers? The only dreamie I need left is Snake, and it would absolutely suck if someone like Stitches or Ankha moved. Especially my darling Marshie. ;; (Speaking of Marshie, I've visited both the creepy Marshal towns! I'll be looking forward to talking about those. XD)

My Tomodachi Life apartment isn't full yet, but here's all the residents I currently have on Koholint Island, divided by fandom:

( It's one big crossover madness! )

Finally, we get to our first set of Tomodachi Life QR Codes~

( Today, we've got Mother 1, Sonic the Hedgehog, and the Cinema Snob! )

Feel free to edit the characters as you please! Personalities, catchphrases, I don't care. Just have fun with them, and feel free to tell me if you're using them. :D

I hope I get armor for the FF characters soon. Characters like Golbez are kinda unrecognizable without it. :o

I set up the My Little Pony Princess Wedding Castle! Now all my ponies have a place to live and I got something nice to look at it in my room~ ♥

I spent some time with Jimmy this weekend! I learned that Casual Gamer held Pokemon every Saturday, so we came over. I was one of only two girls at the place. :o Despite my White skills being a bit rusty and I hadn't found all my needed items yet, I managed to whoop ass 2 times out of 3. I felt awesome. 8)

I've been playing "Pokemon Conquest" non-stop, nomnomnom. I've beaten the main plotline so I'm clearing the side-stories now. :3

While we're on the subject of Pokemon, here's something I whipped up:

I've been staying at Mom & Dad's again due to A. Dave's uncle passed away and he wanted the apartment for himself for a few days. B. There's drama going on with Alicia, a troublesome roommate that's been getting under the skin of everybody involved, so it was best I was out of it. Aside from a blow-up Mom and I had (she thought I was coming home for good when it was actually supposed to be for the night, so that made her upset because she missed me. She apologized though! :o) it's better than it originally was at home, even though there's still some tangles. Mom and I even worked together on making a chicken dinner (and without fighting!)

My parents and I gathered together to watch Sweeney Todd in Concert (starring George Hearn and Patti LuPone, and Neil Patrick Harris as Tobias), and they loved it which makes me seriously happy. It's my favorite Sweeney cast thus far (I still have to hear the entirety of the 2005 Revival soundtrack, which LuPone is also in. :3) and eeeeee. Mom was even crying at the end because she was thinking about what a brilliant, talented genius Sondheim is. THEATER MEMORIES AHOY. I miss when my parents used to go to the theater all the time and take me with them. We've been kinda doing that (Dad got a couple small parts in The Full Monty musical, which is okay but not nearly as heartwarming as the original film), and I got to see a great performance of Rocky Horror with James last year, but going to Sweeney this year was such a total bomb I left at intermission. :( (Which was why I wanted to pop in Sweeney Todd in Concert in the first place~ ♥)

Speaking of theater, can anyone recommend me a decent live-stage performance (if it's recorded and I could rent it on DVD or watch it on YouTube, of course. I know how tricky this sort of thing can be with theater) of Oscar Wilde's plays, such as The Importance of Being Earnest? I know I can read them, but as I've learned with Shakespeare in high school and college, plays are meant to be seen, not read. :(

Dad found me several ancient copies of books while clearing out boxes from the garage today! :o

- The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. Which I've read long ago and remembered, of course~ ♥ It's good to see it again though. :o HELO THAR DAHL. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY FRIEND AND MUSE AND INSPIRATION.
- The Portable Oscar Wilde. Just when I borrowed The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde from the library! :o It doesn't have everything, of course, but it turns out we had our own copy of Dorian Gray all along. Dang. It also has most of De Profundis, and this book is a fifth printing from 1955, so it wasn't allowed to publish the whole letter until 1960. :o I'm gonna read stuff from the Complete Collection that isn't in the Portable before I have to return it to the library, such as Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (recommended to me by Sarah~ ♥) and The Canterville Ghost, which is actually a LOT like Tim Burton's Beetlejuice at first. So I've heard. :o GEE I WONDER IF I'M ON AN OSCAR WILDE KICK.
- The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Which I've never heard of, but Dad says it's an incredible classic. I'll take his word for it, then!
- A book so faded I had to open it to see what it was. Turns out it's Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales! :o
- Fanny Hill aka John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. HOLY SNAP, FANNY HILL. WE HAVE AN UNCUT COPY OF FANNY HILL. I'm keeping this nice and safe on my bookshelf so I can read it after I've finished some of my other books, buwahahahaha. X3

In return for his generosity, I'm letting my Dad borrow Maurice. I'll have to keep an eye on him though, 'cause A. I want to be sure he actually reads the thing. B. I don't want him to lose it. Just now, I found he placed Maurice in a random place, and I had to take it back to my room for safekeeping until he's back from work. Dad has a habit of leaving his books strewn around, so they either go missing, get damaged or both. Dad needs to take good care of Maurice or else he owes me a new copy. >(

I could try reading it to him, though. We used to read to each other, like when Dad read The Little Prince in French and "translated" the sentences to English. Except whenever I try to read Dad a book I've read he's not familiar with, it doesn't tend to go very well. The time I tried to read him Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? Completely backfired. He didn't even laugh at the jokes I thought he might find funny. :( Either he's tired or distracted or busy, and then when I ask him what he thought, he'd give a generic response, and by the next day he's forgotten everything I've read him. :( It's like the only books I can read him are the ones he's already read and liked.

Maybe that's why we fell out of reading together. :(

It's always been so difficult for me to try to recommend books and poetry, since I try to read them out loud to people (and it's not like I read with a friggin' wooden monotone at a snail's pace like my old classmates at English do), and they'd be distracted or uninterested, and I'd be worried to heck that I'm boring them to death and putting them off the very thing I thought they'd enjoy. It's mainly the distraction that bugs me, and it makes me feel that I'm unimportant and so is what I'm trying to share. Like, my parents get excited when I tell them that Maurice is probably my favorite book that I've read this year. So I read the synopsis on the back of my copy to tell them what it's about and what made this book so amazing and ahead of its time. What do they concentrate on? Not that it was written in the early 1910s and couldn't be published until 1971 due to its subject matter and giving its homosexual characters a happy ending. Not that it was just as challenged as Lady Chatterley's Lover or Fanny Hill. All they talk about is "Oh, Howard's End!" "Howard's End!" "I remember that now! That was kind of dull." And they would not stop rambling about Howard's End. I haven't read E.M. Forster's other books, but I'm not interested in them. I don't care about Howard's End, or your opinions about Howard's End, I want to talk about Maurice. And I wonder why I'm discouraged about sharing things I like sometimes. :/

Good thing I decided I'd hate being a teacher. I'd be the type of obnoxious English teacher who would make kids read a bunch of banned books and classics like Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm and they'd hate me for being forced to analyze them and be put off those books forever. The ol' "If they hadn't made me read it in school, I probably would've liked it better" scenario. :P

This post is turning bitter, so I'll end it here. I gotta take a shower. :o

So squeeze me, taste tease me, say I'm your own, but I'm no girl's toy...

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Livestream: SUCCESS! :DDD I wanted to save the entire conversation we had during the stream, but my stupid computer only copy-pasted the last part. Nooooooooo! BIGGEST TRAGEDY EVER. I'll recount the best moments here:

( Spoilers! Extreme perversity. Wished you were there to join us~ )

Everyone who watched Raggedy Ann & Andy with me, you've totally made the experience worth it. ;D Thank you so much! I'm glad you all liked it, for making me laugh and sharing your insight, and I'll be looking forward to seeing you again in any future Livestreams~! ♥♥♥

...My god, did I just make this icon?

I'M SO HORRIBLE (but not as horrible as I could be). I was gonna do Lucario, but he got spared because I couldn't find enough expressions for him. :( Same with Poo, he's grouchy on all of them. >(

( Shadow is the only one I could find icons for. )

It touches me so many Shadow RP journals still use my icons though. Aww.

To sum up my Halloween night: Lost Silver!Gold wearing a corset.

Basically, James and I met in costume (I was Sweeney Todd, he went as Dr. House) went to eat at Chilis, I read him the Lost Silver creepypasta, then we went to the 11 O'Clock showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Oh my fucking gosh, I had a blast~ ♥ I got to meet an Edward Scissorhands, Westley as Dread Pirate Roberts, and the Phantom of the Opera (who apparently has a sense of humor. XD "ELBOW SEX! ELBOW SEX!") I also found a Mario who was friends with Scissorhands and they sat next to each other in the theater~

The show was fantastic. The actors were amazing and the audience made it even better (as should be~) When it ended, we did the Time Warp again before we left our seats. I got to give Rocky a hug. I also got my picture taken with me holding a razor to Frank-N-Furter's throat. Poor Frank-N-Furter. :o

This is the best Halloween night I've had in years~ ♥♥♥♥♥♥

THE NEW POKEMON ARE LINKED. OH MY FUCKING GOD.

( MY THOUGHTS OMG )

THIS GEN IS GONNA BE AWESOME. /excitedplz

I can't wait for the new Kid Icarus and Kirby games~

I've been watching a ton of AVGN vids a couple days ago, and he's really educating me about how to make games. Specifically, how not to make a games. :P I lol'd over the epic battle videos between him and the NC, so now, let's compare the two of them~

Nostalgia Critic

+ Top 11 videos! Those are my favorites~
- Sometimes does not know the term "suspension of disbelief," which was my big beef with him during the Quest For Camelot review. Hell, I don't think he even watched the entire thing, since some of the questions he was flipping about over were already shown for him. :P (Ex. "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THE BLIND GUY GET HIS SIGHT BACK!?" 'Cause Garret was blinded long before Excalibur was stolen. Duh. :P)
+ Absolutely hysterical, hits the nail on the head about certain movies. Even with a movie you like (or liked. :P), you can still have a laughing good time and nod your head and agree at the weak parts. (Yeah, get rid of the cringe-worthy pop culture puns in QfC and we're good. :P)
- He can be unfairly biased. That one time, he was completely blinded by Nostalgia Goggles; In his Willy Wonka vs. Charlie, he unfairly ripped the latter like no tomorrow while showering praise on the former. (He liked the kids in Charlie, but he decided that 2005!Charlie was too goodie-goodie and perfect, so he shoved the prize to Willy Wonka. Um, shouldn't Charlie himself be a seperate category?) He also didn't seem aware of the book that well and gah. That's movie critics for ya. :P

Angry Video Game Nerd

+ He doesn't just tell us a video game is bad, he shows us why and shows all the clunky controls and ugly details down to the nitty-gritty. It's like you've played Superman 64 with him, only not. :P
- Sometimes his brand of humor is too disgusting for my tastes. Why so much diarrhea and vomitting?
+ Sometimes he does little tributes and specials to unique stuff, like exploring the NES accessories, expressing love for the Castlevania series, even an episode dedicated to Nintendo Power magazine. Talk about a nostalgia trip.
- Some of the NSFW videos will make you feel like not eating anything for a week. Ugh.

Overall, AVGN and NC are a good match for each other. ♥ NC makes better insults ("Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I'm the Angry Video Game NEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD! I got a small penis!") while AVGN's got firepower. Crackships FTW!

I'd love to meet Doug Walker and James Rolfe in person one day. :)